Ohio’s unemployment rate went down for the fourth month in a row in February, with the most significant job gains in the trade, transportation and utility industries. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services says Friday that seasonally adjusted joblessness fell to 7.6 percent last month, from 7.7 percent in January. The number of unemployed people decreased by 4,000. The U.S.unemployment rate for February was 8.3 percent, unchanged from January.

Ohio’s unemployment rate continues a slow-but-steady downward track. The state’s unemployment rate ticked down last month from 7.6 percent to 7.5 percent, even though the state lost some 9,500 jobs. Ben Johnson with the state Department of Job and Family Services says trade, transportation, utilities and manufacturing saw the most job gains.

Ohio leads the nation in job losses in March even though unemployment rate fell
Published: Friday, April 20, 2012, 7:00 PM
By Olivera Perkins, The Plain Dealer

Cleveland, Ohio — Ohio led the nation in job losses in March, even as the state’s unemployment rate inched downward. Fewer jobs, but more people working? Blame the contradiction on how data used in calculating the jobless rate are collected.

Columbus Ranks #22 on List of Best Large Cities for Jobs in 2012By: Walker

NewGeography.com has compiled their annual listing of best American cities for jobs, and Columbus ranks in 22nd place on the list of large cities, down 3 spots from last year’s ranking. The scoring system used in the study has a methodology that weighs employment growth trends both long term and short term from data collected from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A new report on Central Ohio’s economy shows the region gained more than 9,000 jobs in early 2012. The group, Columbus 2020, says despite the additional jobs the region’s unemployment rate increased from 6.8% to 7% percent as more discouraged workers give up their job search.

A new report on Central Ohio’s economy shows the region gained more than 9,000 jobs in early 2012. The group, Columbus 2020, says despite the additional jobs the region’s unemployment rate increased from 6.8% to 7% percent as more discouraged workers give up their job search.

This article appears to be innacurate. First, they seem to be using February’s workforce number of 917K, and state that the unemployment rate went up from 6.8% to 7.0% through March, but that’s not true either. Instead it dropped from 7.3% to 6.8% January to March. Even if they had March at 7% unemployment, it would still represent a drop from the beginning of the year.

Ohio’s unemployment rate is back to its lowest level since October 2008. The state reported this morning that the unemployment rate for Ohio dropped to 7.4 percent in April, down from 7.5 percent in March and the number of unemployed workers fell by 7,000 during the month to 431,000.

There’s more positive news on the Ohio jobs front. The latest unemployment report from the Department of Job and Family Services lists a May jobless rate of 7.3 percent. That’s down from 7.4 percent in April and marks the tenth-straight decline in Ohio unemployment.

i wish they could show how many unemployed had their unemployment benefits run out

Except that it should show up in the numbers if that were true. Ohio’s civilian labor force is growing, an indication that people are coming back onto the roles looking for work. It’s risen ever month since January. Also, employment numbers from April to May rose by 5,900, while the unemployment number fell 5,600. So that means that about the same number of people became employed that came off the unemployed number. None of this is indicative of a low unemployment rate because of people not being counted. There are obviously people who are not, and the total labor force still has a long way to go to reach what it was pre-recession, but it’s definitely heading in the right direction.

Central Ohio continues to make progress in regaining jobs lost during the recession. Employers in the region added 1,700 jobs in May, bringing the total for the year so far to about 15,000, said economist Bill LaFayette, owner of Columbus economic consulting firm Regionomics.

Ohio unemployment drops to 7.2% as state adds jobs, more jobless give up looking
Business First by Rick Rouan, Web coordinator
Date: Friday, July 20, 2012

Ohio’s unemployment rate dipped in June to its lowest level since September 2008 as both the number of unemployed Ohioans and the pool of people working or looking for jobs got smaller, the state said Friday.